75 canno on Panther G cant kill infantry efficiently at all. Sometimes even hit right in front of enemy, and they are still active as rabbits. On the contrary, 85mm APHE on T34 could do more damage to infantry
It has to do with the explosive filler on the shells. The Panthers gun only uses I believe 18g of filler and I don’t know the exact number for the Soviet 85mm but I do know it is higher
It can be very hard to judge the actual distance of an explosion relative to the distance of your target, thanks to foreshortening and a lack of parallax. Your brain can’t process how close the explosion is because there isn’t enough information available.
It’s easy to miss by a significant enough margin that no damage is done, while visually it looks like you’re hitting right next to where you’re aiming.
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its not the explotion that kills people its the fragments that kills, so AoE should be bigger, since you those small metal fragments that a shell is producing after it explodes.